{"id":15862,"date":"2015-07-13T16:10:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T16:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=229921"},"modified":"2015-07-13T16:10:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T16:10:33","slug":"rackspace-to-offer-support-for-resell-microsoft-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/rackspace-to-offer-support-for-resell-microsoft-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"Rackspace to offer support for, resell Microsoft Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_229931\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/07\/Support.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-229931\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/07\/Support-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Rackspace is set to offer support for Azure customers and resell Microsoft's public and private cloud technology\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rackspace is set to offer support for Azure customers and resell Microsoft&#8217;s public and private cloud technology<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In another move aimed at shifting its business towards managed (cloud) services Rackspace this week announced it will extend its \u2018fanatical support\u2019 services to Microsoft Azure public and private cloud infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Rackspace said customers will be able to buy either bundled Azure infrastructure with support, or just support services. The offerings will be available first in the US, with plans for an international rollout \u201cthrough early 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur strategy at Rackspace has always been to provide the world\u2019s best expertise and service for industry-leading technologies \u2014 including a broad selection of Microsoft products,\u201d said Taylor Rhodes, chief executive at Rackspace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re pleased to expand our relationship with Microsoft and the options we provide for our customers by offering Fanatical Support for Azure. By adding support for Azure to our portfolio, we can now serve customers who want public, private and hybrid cloud environments built on the Microsoft Azure Stack,\u201d Rhodes said.<\/p>\n<p>Rackspace already offers a range of Microsoft-based managed services and support but the latest move will see the company double down on the service component for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/2015\/05\/05\/microsoft-targets-customer-datacentres-with-azure-stack\/\">newly re-architected<\/a> Azure Stack, including Microsoft\u2019s own public cloud.<\/p>\n<p>The move is also yet another step in Rackspace\u2019s broader transformation from a pure-play hosting and cloud provider towards a managed services and managed cloud company.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft\u2019s Cloud and Enterprise group said: \u201cFanatical Support for Azure and Azure Stack adds Rackspace\u2019s industry-leading support to Microsoft\u2019s deep experience with the hybrid cloud, creating a win-win for customers. With this relationship, our mutual customers will have even more options for migrating their diverse IT workloads to the cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another move aimed at shifting its business towards managed (cloud) services Rackspace this week announced it will extend its &lsquo;fanatical support&rsquo; services to Microsoft Azure public and private cloud infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[803,2172,898,51,1976,443,2960,2961],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azure","category-channel","category-managed-services","category-microsoft","category-news-analysis","category-rackspace","category-scott-guthrie","category-taylor-rhodes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15863,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862\/revisions\/15863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}